Ghorawal

Overview & 2022 Context

Ghorawal, Assembly Constituency number 400 in Sonbhadra district, produced a clear mandate in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. Dr. Anil Kumar Maurya of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 101,277 votes (40.45%), defeating Ramesh Chandra Dubey (SP), who polled 77,355 (30.9%). The victory margin was 23,922 votes. Of 394,231 electors, 250,376 votes were polled and turnout stood at 63.51%.

The 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election was a bipolar contest between the BJP-led NDA and the Samajwadi Party–led front. Campaign discourse centred on law-and-order and welfare delivery versus unemployment, inflation, farm distress and the stray-cattle problem, as widely reported during the polls; the BJP retained power while the SP improved its seat tally as the principal opposition. In this Legislative Assembly seat, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: Dr. Anil Kumar Maurya (BJP, 101,277 / 40.45%); Ramesh Chandra Dubey (SP, 77,355 / 30.9%); Mohan Singh Kushwaha (BSP, 46,941 / 18.75%); Videshwari Singh Rathore (INC, 10,377 / 4.14%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Dr. Anil Kumar Maurya and Ramesh Chandra Dubey is the binding fact for seat 400, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 23,922 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Sonbhadra belongs to eastern Uttar Pradesh (Purvanchal), a densely settled agrarian belt. Headquartered at Sonbhadra, the district’s politics often turn on remittances, farm labour, flood/embankment stress where rivers matter, and caste coalitions. Administratively, Ghorawal is Assembly Constituency number 400 under Sonbhadra (headquarters: Sonbhadra). Like neighbouring segments, it mixes rural habitations and market nodes where roads, schools, health access and welfare delivery travel with voters as strongly as statewide narratives.

Geography here is not ornamental for election reading. Flood plains, market roads and block headquarters shape who can mobilise, who migrates for work, and which booth clusters decide close Assembly Constituency contests. Ghorawal sits inside that Sonbhadra administrative map even when national television talks only of alliances.

History & Past Election Trends

On the same constituency lineage, recent Legislative Assembly outcomes were — 2017: ANIL KUMAR MAURYA (BJP) by 57,649 votes; 2012: RAMESH CHANDRA (SP) by 15,187 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for Dr. Anil Kumar Maurya (BJP) in Legislative Assembly segment number 400 should be read as continuity where the same camp had dominated, or as another swing where the lineage had flipped before — never by treating the serial number alone as eternal identity.

Statistics & Gender-wise Polling Analysis

Electors: 394,231. Votes polled: 250,376. Turnout: 63.51%. Winner Dr. Anil Kumar Maurya (BJP): 101,277 (40.45%); runner-up Ramesh Chandra Dubey (SP): 77,355 (30.9%); margin: 23,922 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 130,501 (52.32%), female 118,951 (47.68%).

Turnout 63.51% with 250,376 votes from 394,231 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Sonbhadra.

Issues That Drove Voting Behavior

Statewide themes included suraksha/law-and-order messaging, labharthi welfare schemes, Hindutva-plus mobilisation, and opposition focus on jobs, price rise, farm incomes and stray cattle. In Sonbhadra, voters also weighed migration remittances, farm labour, flood embankments, caste coalitions. a clear mandate for Dr. Anil Kumar Maurya (BJP) against Ramesh Chandra Dubey (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 400.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Ghorawal is narrower: Dr. Anil Kumar Maurya (BJP) outpolled Ramesh Chandra Dubey (SP) by 23,922 votes under 63.51% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 400.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Ghorawal. Dr. Anil Kumar Maurya (BJP) converted 101,277 votes; Ramesh Chandra Dubey (SP) had 77,355. Turnout 63.51% and margin 23,922 in seat 400 signal organisational reach across polling stations rather than a single-day mood swing alone.

For journalists and researchers, the safer frame is lineage continuity plus the published 2022 table: electors 394,231, votes polled 250,376, and the head-to-head between Dr. Anil Kumar Maurya and Ramesh Chandra Dubey. District cues in Sonbhadra still matter — roads, floods, farm prices, migration and welfare delivery — but they must be weighed against what the EVM count actually recorded in this Assembly Constituency / Legislative Assembly seat.